Coke oven



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COKE ovEN Filed June 16, 1938 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 lNVENTOR 7% ATTORNEY 3 sheets-sheet 2 March 19, 1940. c, OTTQ I comi: OVEN Fiied June 16, 1938 C. OTTO COKE OVEN March 19, 1940.

Filed June 16, 1958 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Il l lll/f g INVENTOR J ATTORNEY oven battery by the combustion of rich fuel gasto ythe different nues in accordance'with the heat l PtetedMar. 19,1940

"rarest ortica f conn OVEN Carl Otto, The Hague, Netherlands, assigner to d Fuel Refining Corporation, Dover, Del., a cor'- poration of Delaware Application June 16, 1938, Serial No. 214,132 f InGerinany June 16, 1937 "c claims;

The general object of the present invention is to improve the heating means of horizontal regenerative coke oven batteries having vertically ued heating Walls, such as are customarily ern-k ployed in the manufacture of metallurgical coke. More specifically, the object of the present invention is to provide such a col-re oven battery with simple and eiiective provisions for supplyiing to each vertical heating flue at the end of a heating walLthe arnount of heat needed to enable that flue to furnish its proper share of the total amount of coking heat'w furnished by the heatingwall, and theadditional heat needed to ycompensate for the heat losses at the sides of the battery due to radiation and Contact with the atmosphere, v x

The supply of the proper amount of heat to the end nues of coke oven batteries of the above mentioned type haslong been recognized as a troublesome problem. In heating such a coke supplied to the different flues through individual regulable supply connections, such as are employed in underred coke ovens, it is readily possible' to proportion the supp-liesof the fuel gas requirements of the hues, but 'there remains the 'problem of supplying combustion air to the 'flues ,in amount proportional to thearnount of fuel gas supplied, and. preheated to a suitable teniperatu-re. Furthermorasuch coke oven batteries are usually constructed for optional heating by the combustion oi either rich fuel gas which is not, or lean fuel gas Which-must be regeneratively preheated. v 1

For the proper supply of regeneratively preheated conibustionair, or preheated combustion air and lean fuel gas, to the different flues, it is not only necessary to regulate 'the amounts of regeneratively heated air and gas passing to the V diiier'ent flues. but it is also necessary to pass heating gases from the flues into the yregenerators during the regenerator heating periods in suchl flues, respectivelythe proper distribution of'fiow through ,the dilerent flues during periods in which the flow through the end iiue is up, will not insure the pro-per .distribution when the f loW l through the end flue isdownw When each end flue is connected at its upper end to asingle adjacent hue, in the manner customary in ovens having hairpin fiues, the end ue will not'receive enough heat except under conditions in .which the .adjacent ue receives too ymuch heat.

In accordance with the presentinvention, the gas ovv through each heating Wall end flue is made proportional to the heating requirement of the -hue, not only during the periods in Which combustion occurs in the flue, but also during the alternating periods, in which the flue does not serve as a combustion iiue, butas a conduit for the passage into the regenerator or, regenerators connected -to the lovver end of the end flue, of products or" conibustioniormed in anadjacent flue or flues. f

The vpresent invention comprises means, Which.

nected to anindividual regenerator or regenerator section, and in such case, the ratio of flue Width measured in the direction of the length of the coking chamber lto the volume of the regenerator or regenelatorl section individual to the iiue'is smaller inthe case of each heating Wall end nue, than in the case of the adjacent flues.

"1"he various features of novelty which characterize my invention are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this specification. For a better understanding of the invention, however, its advantages, and speciiic objects attained Withits use, reference should be hadl `to the accompanying drawings and descriptive Inatterin which I have illustratedand described preferred embodiments of the invention. I. l

OfA the drawings:

1 is a partial transverse section of `a horizontal coke oven battery having hairpin heating flues in its heating Walls; .c

Fig. 2r is a section on the line '2 2 of Fig. 1;

Fig, 3 is a section taken similarly to Fig. 1, of a coke oven battery of the cross-over type;

Fig. 4 is a section taken similarly tov Fig. 3 of a battery of the cross-over type of `modified form; l

Fig. 51s a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3;

6 is a partial section taken'lsimilarly to' Fig. 2, illustrating a modified regenerator supply ing'formed with hairpin nues.

connection; v t Fig. 7 is a section taken similarly to Fig. l of a coke oven battery having'hairpin iues and with a multiplicity ci such 'lues connected at their lower ends to the same regenerator;

Fig. 8 is' a partial section on the line 8--8 of Fig. 7;

Fig. 9 is a partial section on the line 9 9 of Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is a reproduction on a larger scale of a portionof Fig. 7; and

Fig, 11 is a View taken similarly to Fig. l0 and illustrating a modified construction.

In the drawings and referring first to the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the masonry mass or body A, of the underiired coke oven battery, is formed with coking chambers B, eirtending transversely of the battery, and with alternating heating walls C, each of the latter be- The end hairpin ue in each heating wall comprises outer and inner ilue branches D and D', respectively, connected at their upper ends. The outer flue branch D is narrower, measured in the direction of the heating wall, than the inner branch D. Each of the intermediate hairpin flues comprises branches d and d', connected at their upper ends, and shown as similar in width, measured in the direction of the length of the heating wall, to one another, and to the ue branch D.

Each ofthe different flue branches D, D', d. and

d has its lower end connected by a duct or channel E to a corresponding individual regenerator F, and isA connected by a corresponding channel e, to a corresponding individual regenerator f.

The regenerator chambers F and f are arranged in rows separated by regenerator division walls G and ganci the adjacent individual regenerators in the same row are separated from one another by walls F'. Each wall G is a so-called pillar wall, parallel to, beneath, and directly supan intermediate regenerator division wall g, lo-

cated between and separating the two rows of regenerator sections F and f. Each of the regenerators F and j, between two adjacent pillar ist wallsG, is connected to a iiue branch D or d in the heating wall C above one of those pillar walls, and is connected to a ue branch D' or d' in the heating wall above the other of those pillar walls G. l

n As shown. each of the regenerators F in the same row is supplied with air or lean fuel gas to be preheated in the regenerator by means of a corresponding horizontal distribution pipe H, beneath the masonry mass A, and adjacent and parallel to said row and connected to each of the regenerators in the row, by an individual regulable branch supply connection I. Similarly, each of the regenerators fin one row, receives combustion air to be preheated from a corresponding distribution pipe h, beneath and parallel to said row through an individual regulable branch supply connection z'.

, Thebattery shown in Figs. l. and 2 is adapted foroperation, either with the combustion of lean fuel gas preheated in the regenerator sections F, or with rich fuel gas supplied to the different iiue branches D, D', d and d' through individual supplychannels J, which extends up from the bottom of .the masonry mass A through the different intermediate regenerator division Walls g.

As shown, the channels J in each wall g are con` nected at their lower ends to individualregulable outlet branches 7c from a rich fuel gas distribution pipe K parallel to and beneath thelcwer edge of the corresponding wall g. The upper end of every second channel J in each ywall y is inclined in one direction and extendsinto com` munication with one of the' iiue branches D and t c. in one of the two adjacent .heating walls, while offtake sole channelfF3 or f3 underlying a row of regenerators F or f, respectively. The plates of trays F2 support the regenerator checker-bricks F4 which are shown as having end wall portions which unite to form the walls F' separating the adjacent regenerators F or ,1" in the saine row. At one, or each side of the battery, theccrrespending end of each sole channel F3 or f? is connected by a reversing valve L to a correspond-` ing waste heat'tunnel M, running longitudinally of the battery. t

In the arrangement shown, pairs'or `rows of regenerators F alternate with pairs oi' 'rows'of regenerators f. The row of regenerators F and therow of regeneratorsf at the opposite sidesof each intermediate regenerator division wall g, all serve as upfiow, or 0111, regeneratorsdu'ring regenerator reversal periods, alternating with other periods in which all of said regenerators serve as ofj or downflow regenerators. In con# sequence, the gas pressures at opposite sides oi each wall g are always'approximatelythe same,` so that there is no signcant tendency to leakage through a wall g `from the regenerators at one side of the regenerators atthe other side of the wall. The regenerators F or adjacent and at one side oi each pillar wall G are always on,

regenerators, oroff regenerators when the regenerators F or f at the opposite side of the wall are respectively "off or "on regenerators. There is thus normally a leakage producing difference between` the pressures at the opposite sides of each wall (ll and to avoid leakage through those walls, vertical metallic barrier plates O are shown as incorporated in the lower portions of the walls G.

Thecoke oven battery structure shownin' Figs.

vl and 2, includes certain improvements in its regenerators and fuel gas and combustion air supply connections, which arev disclosed `and claimed in my said copending applicationfer.

erators respectively connected to the lower ends of those ue branches. The coking heat requireg ment of the fluebranchD is smaller than that of the flue branch D', because the width ofthe branch D, measured in the direction of the length ist.

' proportioned, the supply of vfuel gas and combustion` air in similar amounts to the lflue branches D and D during the respective periods in which they serve as Aupeburning or combustion fiues, will give to the flue branch D the amount of heat needed to supply its coking heat requirement, and Will give to the flue branch D thejamount ol heat required tomeet its smaller Coking heat requirement, and in addition, the amount of heat needed tov make up for the loss of heat `to the "atmosphere at the side of the battery.` With similar volumes of gas passing through the different regenerators connected to the lower ends of the iiue branches D and D', during the respective off periods of the' regenerators, the latter are all maintained at the proper operative pressures. f

In Figs. 3 and 5, I have illustrated one form, and n Fig. 4 asecond'form,` of the present invention incorporated in a coke oven battery difyfering from that shown in Figs; l and 2, esscntially only in that it is ofthe cross over type. In the form shown in Figs, 3 and 5, each end Wall heating i'lue DA is connected to the end wall ue DA in an adjacent heating wall, by a so-called cross lover channel NA, which extends over the top of the coking chamber B between the two heating walls. The intermediate flues DB in each heating wall are connected to correspondingly located intermediate 'heating lues DB in an adjacent heating wall by `cross over channels NB. As shown, each cross-over channel NB is connected at each end to two intermediate flues DB in the corresponding heating wall, but the number of intermediate iiues oonnected by a single cross over channel is not limportant from the standpoint of the present inyention.

"In the form of theinvention shown in Figs. 3 and 5, it is important, however, that while the iiues DAland DB vare of equal width, measured in the direction of the length of the heating walls, the regenerators F connected to the lower end of each flue DA are wider, measured in the direction ofthe length of the heating walls, than the regenerators. connected-to the lower end of each' ue DB. In consequence, in the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 5, as in that shown in l and 2, the ratio oi the coking heat requirement of a flue to the regenerative capacity of the regenerators connected to the lower end ofthe flue, is greater in the case of the endv wallflue, than in the case of an adjacent intermediate flue. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the same `ratio relation issecured by making the width of the end flues DA lessthan the width of the work thereof and the subjacent reinforced conl crete supportingdeck AB, and the branch supply connections from the different conduits include regulating devices which may be like those shown in Fig. 6, and are accessible for adjustment from the basement space beneath the deck AB. In the respects just noted, the construction shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, include improvements disclosed and claimed in my said copending application, Ser. No. 212,084.

With the cross over type of oven illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, each two adjacent regenerators F are both on regenerators, or off 'regenerators at any one time, and the same is true for v each two adjacent regenerators f; This permits each adjacent pair of regenerators F to be supplied with air or lean gas to be preheated by a single horizontal distribution pipe I-IA having separate outlets IA to each of the different regenerators F, as shown in Fig. 6. The regulating device 11 associated with each outlet IA and accessible from the underside of the battery,

comprises an obturator 110supported at the upper end of a rod 11,1, which has its lower end resting on a removable cap 112, normally closing the lower end of the corresponding branch pipe IA. Each pipe IA has its upperr end in the coke oven brickwork and its lower end below the deck AB, and communicates with the corresponding distribution pipe HA through a lateral port in register with a lateral port in the pipe HA. By replacing an obturator having one cross section, by an obturator having a different cross section, the eiective capacity of the branch' connection can be varied.

In Figs. 7-10, I have illustrated an embodiment of the invention in an underfred coke oven battery of a well known type having hairpin flues in its heating wall, and cross regenerators arranged in groups of three, each group comprising a regenerator FA adapted for use in preheating either combustion air or lean fuel gas and two side regenerators fa, each used to preheat combustion air, regardless of whether the oven is operating with rich or lean fuel gas. In such batteries, each regenerator may extend for the fullvwidth of the battery, but usually extends from one side to the center of the battery and is in end to end relation with a regenerator extending from the center to the other side of the battery.

The flues in each heating wall of the battery shown in Figs. 7-l0, comprise an end hairpin flue having a narrow outer branch iiue D and a wider kinner branch nue D', and intermediate hairpin iiues having their branch nues d and d of the same width as the flue branch D', as in the battery shown in Figs. 1 and 2.v Each hairpin branch ue D and d in each heating wall, is connected by a duct.E to a regenerator FA beneath the coking chamber B at one side of the heating wall and each iiue branch D and d in the same wall is connected by a duct E to ythe regenerator FA beneath' the coking chamber at the other side of the heating wall. In addition, the hairpin branch flues D, D', d and d in the heating wall, are each connected by a corresponding duct e to one or the other of the two regenerators faimmediately adjacent the heating wall and between the regenerators FA,.-to which the said flue branches are connected by ducts E, the flue branches connected by ducts E `to one regenerator FA, being connected by ducts e to the immediately adjacent regenerator fa. Each regenerator fa is thus connected to hairpin branch flues in one heating wall only,

` ilue DC by the ue DC.

whiley each regenerator FA s connected to hairpin branch flues in each of two adjacent heating walls.

With the arrangement shown in Figs. 7-10, the quantity rate of gas iiow is the same through each of the branches D and D of the hairpin ue D adjacent each heating wall C, with either direction of flow, up or down in either flue branch. In consequence, with the oven constructed and operated as it may be, so that the flue branch D receives the amount of heat needed to satisfy its coking requirement, the flue branch D will receive the heat needed to meet its coking heat requirement, and the additional amount of heat needed to make up for the loss of heat at the side of the battery. In the construction shown in Figs. 7-10, as in the constructions previously described, the linear velocity of gas ow in the flue at the end of the heating wall, is higher with either direction oi flow, than in the adjacent ues or flue branches.

In Fig. 11, I have illustrated an embodiment of the invention in a coke oven battery of the type shown in Figs. 7-10, but ldiffering therefrom in form, in that the flue DC at the end of each heating wall is connected at its upper end to the upper end of the adjacent ue DC', and to the upper end of a second ue DC", separated from the The three flues DC, DC and DC are connected to the associated regenerators so that they collectively form what may be regarded as a hairpin ne, comprising two branches DC and DC", in parallel with one another, and in series with the fine branch DC. With the construction shown in Fig. 1l, and with the flue branches DC, DC' and DC all of the same width, measured in the direction of the heating wall, the volume, and consequently the velocity of gas ow through the flue DC, will be double that through each of the connected nues DC' and DC". To facilitate the proper division of the flow through the iiues DC and DC, the iiue division wall D10 between the ues DC and DC', is shorter than the flue division wall D11 between the ues DC' and DC", and the upper end of the wall D11 is curved toward the adjacent side of the battery. l

While in accordance with the provisions of the statutes, I have illustrated and described the best form of embodiment of my invention now known to me, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes may be made inthe form of the apparatus disclosed without departing from the spirit of my invention as set forth in the appended claims and that in some cases certain features of my invention may be used to advantage without a corresponding use of other features. f

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l, A horizontal regenerative coke oven battery having heating walls alternating with cokng chambers and extending transversely of the battery and formed with vertical heating ues connected at their upper ends in groups for simultaneous and reversible ow up or down through some, and down or up through other iiues of each group, and regenerators connected to the lower ends of the flues, whereby the iiues of each ue group are included in a flow path which is separate from the flow` paths including the other fiue groups and which includesfin series, a regenerator section, an up flow flue section, a down flow iiue section and a regenerator section, each` y heating wall end flue constituting one entire section of one of said ow paths and the ratioof the cross sectional area of said end flue to the cross sectional area of a second and adjacent `.section of the same fiow path, being smallervthan the correspondingratio of the cross sectional areas of the sections respectively alongside said end groups of two, so that each Iiue'forms one'branchl of a hairpin flue, and in which the fluey attheend of the heating wall is of less width measured in the direction of the length of the wall than the adjacent iiue forming the other branch of the same hairpin flue.

3. A coke oven battery as specified in claim 1, in which the lower ends of the diierent flues in each heating wall in which the ow is in the same v direction, are connected to diierent regenerators, whereby each `section of each of said iiow paths is separated from the corresponding sections of the other flow paths. v

4. A coke oven as specified in claim l, in which the diierent flues in each heating wall are connected at their upper ends in groups of two, so

that each flue forms one branch and an adjacent l flue forms the second branch of a hairpin ue and in which the diierent ues in each heating wall in which the flow is in the same direction are connected at their lower ends to diierent regenerators and in which the ratio of flue width, measured in the direction of the length of the heating wall, to the cross sectional area of the i regenerator or regenerator connected to the 4lower,

end of the flue, is greater in the case of the heating wall end flue than in the case of the flues adjacent thereto.

5. A coke oven as specified in claim .1, comprising a cross over channel connecting the end: flue in one heating wall tothe adjacent end flue in an adjacent heating'wall and comprising other cross over channels connecting flues in the rst mentioned heating wall to flues in said second heating wall and in which the -lowerends of the lues at the end of the heating walls are connected to regenerators, different from those to which the other flues in the heating walls are connected. v

6. A coke oven battery as specified in claim l, in which the end ue in a heating wall is vconnected at its upper end to the immediately adjacent lue and also to the next adjacent flue, and in which the direction ofi gas ow in the end flue is up or down when the direction of gas ow in the immediately and next adjacent flues is respectively down or up.

CARL o'r'ro. 

